Public Employees' Health Benefits Survive Major Threats, So Far Public-sector workers continue to receive benefits that help offset their more modest salaries compared with their
For more than 20 years, PNHPās Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
PNHP has archived Dr. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Marcia Angell on the flawed structure of the Massachusetts plan
Healthcare plan needs dose of common sense
By Marcia Angell
The Boston Globe
April 17, 2006
If Governor Romney thinks the state's new plan for universal health coverage
Hoffa supports national health care
Health costs destroying our economy
National health plan only way to protect workers and employers
Detroit News
April 14, 2006
By James P. Hoffa, president of the International
State overreach on national problems
State Governments Overreach in Taking on Problems Best Solved at the National Level
The New York Times
April 13, 2006
By Robert H. Frank
In most of the
Reform strategy from Harvard's greatest minds
The Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement
April 2006 A Strategy for Health Care Reform:
Catalyzing Change from the Bottom Up
The American health care system seems
Massachusetts to fund private insurers instead of health care
Conference Committee Report
Health Care Access and Affordability
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
4/3/2006
This Conference Committee Report contains a comprehensive plan for increasing health insurance coverage for all residents
Single Payer vs. CDHC: A Dialogue
Because of other commitments, there will be a break in the Quote of the Day messages. In the meantime, you may be interested in reading
Online dating as a ticket to health insurance
CoverTheUninsured.org
Source: Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal, 3/22/06 In the Online Dating World, Being Insured is Sexy
So you think you're insured?
Former Members Sue Blue Cross
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
March 28, 2006
The state's largest health insurer systematically - and illegally - cancels coverage retroactively for people
Cigna's Custom Benefit Builder dismantles coverage
Cigna to allow consumers to customize their health plans
By Jonathan G. Bethely
American Medical News
April 3, 2006
Cigna's Custom Benefit Builder allows members to personalize various aspects
Join David Broder in supporting the Citizens' Health Care Working Group survey
Broder on Politics
Live Discussion with Post Columnist David S. Broder
washingtonpost.com
March 24, 2006
San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (Don McCanne): Do you believe that the report to be
Decline in physician charity care
A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines Again
By Peter J. Cunningham and Jessica H. May
Center for Studying Health System Change
March 2006